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Suspension bridge collapse kills at least 132 in India
At least 132 people died and many are injured after a century-old cable suspension bridge collapsed into a river Sunday evening in the western Indian state of Gujarat, sending hundreds plunging in the water, officials said.

‘I was just trying to save my life:’ Four wounded in weekend shootings in Boston

Four people were hospitalized Sunday following a violent weekend in Boston, as police responded to a pair of shootings just hours apart, officials said. The turmoil left some residents worried about their safety, while advocates renewed calls for immediate action to stanch the bloodshed.

Lula defeats Bolsonaro to become Brazil’s president — again

Brazil’s electoral authority said Sunday that Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of the leftist Worker’s Party defeated incumbent Jair Bolsonaro to become the country’s next president.

Witnesses say ‘it was like a hell’ inside South Korean crush

A stunned Seoul was just beginning on Monday to put together the huge scope of the crowd surge that killed mostly people in their 20s and 30s, including foreign nationals, on Saturday night.

University of Kentucky student dies in Seoul Halloween crush

Alleged assailant filled blog with delusional thoughts in days before Pelosi attack

The San Francisco Bay area man charged with attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband filled a blog a week before the incident with delusional thoughts, including that an invisible fairy attacked an acquaintance and sometimes appeared to him in the form of a bird, according to online writings under his name.

Pelosi attacker carried zip ties, official says Musk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory

Patriots 22, Jets 17

The Jets' Michael Carter II (far right) headed for the end zone but his pick-6 was coming back because Mac Jones was roughed up.

Jim McBride | Between the hash marks

Jets thought they had a pick-6 and a 17-3 lead, but Patriots survived because of a game-changing call

The roughing-the-passer call enabled the Patriots to keep the ball, kick a field goal, and go into halftime trailing only 10-6.

Quarterback Zach Wilson is holding back the Jets, who lost their 13th straight to the Patriots Rhamondre Stevenson and Jakobi Meyers are the Patriots’ offense right now

Mac Jones managed, especially in the second half, in a game he got to start — and finish — for the Patriots

Ben Volin | Instant Analysis

In a must-win game, the Patriots save their season with a victory over the Jets

THE GREAT DIVIDE

Two months into the school year, Boston schools struggle to fill more than 800 vacancies
The vacancies extend into far-ranging corners of Boston Public Schools, including administrative offices, classrooms, and cafeterias, and encompass about 175 teaching positions.

Halloween

People took to the streets wearing their Halloween best in Salem on Sunday, the day before Halloween.

Frightening and funny, ghosts and goblins take over Salem for their annual celebration

Crowd sizes have rebounded since Halloween festivities were nixed here in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and October attendance increased again this year by about 5 percent compared to last year, according to the city.

8 New England-based horror films to haunt your Halloween These are the best and worst candies of Halloween

Adam Montgomery, with defense attorneys Caroline Smith (far left) and Paige Pihl-Buckley at a hearing in September in Manchester, N.H.

‘He has a black soul’: Adam Montgomery had a troubled past that shadowed him when he inquired about meeting his infant daughter, Harmony

Five years after DCF began caring for Harmony Montgomery, her father persuaded a Massachusetts juvenile court judge to grant him custody of the girl, who then died later that year, allegedly at his hands.

Harvard is party to a case that the Supreme Court will hear on affirmative action.

Supreme Court to judge affirmative action in college admissions Monday

On Monday, the Supreme Court with its conservative majority will hear arguments in two cases challenging affirmative action. The likely outcome, experts said, is a nationwide ban.

The Wizards' Bradley Beal (left) scored only 12 points, none of them meaningful, going against Marcus Smart and the Celtics on Sunday.

Gary Washburn | On basketball

For these Celtics, hard work on defense will make for easier wins

Sunday was a positive response after consecutive losses. The next step is eliminating those mental lapses altogether.

Defense digs in, and Celtics get some timely 3-pointers in wire-to-wire win over Wizards

Best TV Shows

Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," which prevailed over "The Wire" in the Globe's Best TV bracket.

Our Best TV bracket is down to eight, and older series are getting some love

After Round 3, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "All in the Family" are moving on in the competition, while "Succession," "The Wire," and "The Office" are all taking a seat.

Vote in Round 4 of our Best TV Shows bracket What’s the best TV show of the last 50 years? You decide.

Opinion

Pedestrians walked through Downtown Crossing on Nov. 23, 2020.

Where’s an urban mechanic for downtown Boston?

Lofty visions can’t fill empty storefronts, but a focus on the art of the possible will help.

Harvey for Harvard

Another century, another fight against voter intimidation

IDEAS | SHANTI L. NELSON

Hot-flashing towards Bethlehem

Seth Magaziner for Congress

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University on March 8, 2016, in New York City. His book, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery" won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. Photo illustration by Alex LaSalvia.

The Emancipator

‘Originalism is intellectually indefensible,’ says noted historian about right-leaning Supreme Court

In a Q&A with The Emancipator, Eric Foner, a leading authority on the post-Civil War era, said he wants to see liberal justices develop a vision of the Constitution that doesn’t build on conservative legal ideology.

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Special reports

A celebrated surgeon, a trail of secrets and death

Dr. Yvon Baribeau set a record for malpractice settlements, and many colleagues tried desperately to stop him. But hospital executives let him go on and on.

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Part 2: A crisis of conscience, with lives on the line Timeline: What the public didn't know about Dr. Yvon Baribeau

The Top 100 Women-Led Businesses in Massachusetts 2022

The Women’s Edge and Globe Magazine celebrate the state’s leading companies and nonprofits run by women.

See the full Women & Power issue from Globe Magazine

Celebrating 150 years of The Boston Globe

We’re marking the Globe’s 150th year with a look back through 15 decades of coverage. Explore 150 of the most significant front pages, revisit classic sports moments, try a crossword from 1917, and more.

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THE FINE PRINT

People are shocked at the cost of filling their oil tanks as winter approaches
Many homeowners are starting to feel the acute pain of high oil prices on the cusp of the months-long heating season in New England.

KEVIN PAUL DUPONT | ON HOCKEY

Jim Montgomery’s Bruins are off to a scorching start, but they may not even be operating at 100 percent yet
The Bruins' bench boss thinks his team still has plenty of work to do with grasping his system, and he's also got some shelved stars making their way back to the lineup.

LOVE LETTERS

We’ve never taken a vacation together
“No effort has been made by him” to plan a trip.

TALKING SHOP

A startup is helping e-commerce brands ‘leap’ onto Newbury Street
Leap shoulders the brunt of the burden for e-commerce companies opening traditional storefronts. It just launched in Boston with Goodlife and ThirdLove.

Police arrest man, recover loaded gun during Dorchester traffic stop
Jamaal Marcelle of Dorchester faces charges of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition, police said in a statement. He is expected to be arraigned in the Dorchester division of Boston Municipal Court.

Legal abortions fell around 6 percent in two months after end of Roe

In the first two months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, legal abortions nationwide declined by more than 10,000, a drop of about 6 percent, according to the first attempt at a nationwide count of abortions since the decision.

Recommended reads

Cranberry farmer Leo Cakounes has been the face of ads arguing for a No vote on Question 1, the ballot measure that would raise taxes on the state’s highest earners. But he admits he'll be fine personally even if the question passes.

The face of opposition to Question 1 admits proposed tax wouldn’t hurt him much: ‘I’m not struggling’

The super-wealthy opponents of Question 1 have hidden behind Cape Cod cranberry grower Leo Cakounes, the face of the ad campaign advocating No on the measure. But even the hard-working Harwich resident acknowledges he'll be alright if the tax passes – he is sitting on properties worth millions.

Bird watchers atwitter over rare bird sighting on Cape Cod
“God only knows where this bird came from," said Mark Faherty, the science coordinator for Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.

Brady and Bundchen say their divorce is already ‘finalized.’ Legal experts say a solid prenuptial agreement could be why.
Legal experts told the Globe Friday that Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen most likely had a well-drafted prenuptial agreement, which could make their multimillion dollar divorce fairly straightforward.

Details of Anthony Amore’s divorce are becoming an issue in Mass. auditor’s race. Here’s what we know.
An NBC10 Boston report revealed that documents related to the divorce proceedings included a temporary restraining order, the confiscation of Amore’s firearm, and allegations of verbal and emotional abuse.

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Culture & Lifestyle

Andrew Levitt (foreground left) and Niki Metcalf (foreground right) star in "Hairspray," which runs through Oct. 30 at Citizens Bank Opera House.

Things to do around Boston this weekend and beyond

Tegan and Sara at Royale Friday night.

Tegan and Sara make every minute count at Royale

Jennifer Coolidge in "The White Lotus."

Jennifer Coolidge is making this up as she goes

The Crayton Singers' 1966 single “Master on High” is part of new 15-track compilation, out Friday, called “The Skippy White Story: Boston Soul 1961-1967.”

Soul searching yields ‘The Skippy White Story,’ rare nuggets from Black Boston artists of the ‘60s

Special Projects

Back to Boston

Welcome Back to Boston

Consider this our love letter to the city, a celebration of all it has to offer visitors and locals alike.

Top Spots to Live in Greater Boston in 2022

A guide to 36 Greater Boston communities where demand — and prices — are surging.

Jeneé Osterheldt

A Beautiful Resistance

Black joy, Black lives, as celebrated by culture columnist Jeneé Osterheldt.

‘On the Street’: The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods

The changing face of Greater Boston neighborhoods.

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Opinion, ideas, and commentary

"If horror is the scream, terror is the whisper, the disembodied laughter and song."

IDEAS | REGINA M. HANSEN

No wonder you’re afraid, pumpkin

Save me from our robot overlords

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestured while speaking Oct. 27.

The world according to Vlad

Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, center, took a photo with a supporter as he campaigned for reelection in Brasilia on Monday.

IDEAS | LETICIA DUARTE & CHARLES M. SENNOTT

Authoritarianism’s rise and journalism’s fall are intersecting

According to the most recent inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of Halloween candy is up over 13 percent compared to last year.

A WIN-win tool worth trying again to curb inflation

IDEAS | JON ROBERTS AND MATT BIVENS

Who will care for our sickest children? Pediatric hospitals are turning some of them away.

Metro

Frightening and funny, ghosts and goblins take over Salem for their annual celebration

Crowd sizes have rebounded since Halloween festivities were nixed here in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, and October attendance increased again this year by about 5 percent compared to last year, according to the city.

‘I was just trying to save my life:’ Four wounded in weekend shootings in Boston

Four people were hospitalized Sunday following a violent weekend in Boston, as police responded to a pair of shootings just hours apart, officials said. The turmoil left some residents worried about their safety, while advocates renewed calls for immediate action to stanch the bloodshed.

‘He has a black soul’: Adam Montgomery had a troubled past that shadowed him when he inquired about meeting his infant daughter, Harmony

Five years after DCF began caring for Harmony Montgomery, her father persuaded a Massachusetts juvenile court judge to grant him custody of the girl, who then died later that year, allegedly at his hands.

Dr. Marcelle Willock, groundbreaking role model for women and people of color in medicine, dies at 84

When she arrived 40 years ago to head a department at Boston University's medical school, "I was told by certain higher-ups to know my place," she recalled. Instead, she became a role model for women and people of color in medicine.

Sports

The Wizards' Bradley Beal (left) scored only 12 points, none of them meaningful, going against Marcus Smart and the Celtics on Sunday.

Gary Washburn | On basketball

For these Celtics, hard work on defense will make for easier wins

Sunday was a positive response after consecutive losses. The next step is eliminating those mental lapses altogether.

All 20 passes Drew Eason threw for Methuen this week were caught, with his only blemish coming on an interception during a three-touchdown performance.

EMASS FOOTBALL | PLAYERS OF THE WEEK

EMass football: Methuen’s Drew Eason completed 19 of 20 passes for 393 yards and 3 TDs to highlight Players of the Week

Eason hit his younger brother, Shane, for an 88-yard touchdown to salt away a win over North Andover.

Jayson Tatum followed through on one of the five 3-pointers he made in the win over the Wizards.

celtics 112, wizards 94

Defense digs in, and Celtics get some timely 3-pointers in wire-to-wire win over Wizards

Jaylen Brown had 24 points and 10 rebounds, Jayson Tatum and Malcolm Brogdon added 23 points apiece, and Boston wiped away its two-game losing streak before it could become a legitimate concern.

Kraft group airs ad during Sunday’s NFL games highlighting fight against antisemitism

SEAHAWKS 27, GIANTS 13

In battle of surprises, Tyler Lockett makes amends and Seattle beats Giants

Kansas City Royals tab Tampa Bay Rays bench coach Matt Quatraro as next manager

Business

People are shocked at the cost of filling their oil tanks as winter approaches

Many homeowners are starting to feel the acute pain of high oil prices on the cusp of the months-long heating season in New England.

More dental insurers spend to stop Question 2

Insurance industry money pours into dental ballot question as Election Day draws near.

Buying a house in Mass. is expensive. Now the state is offering some people $50,000 to help.

A startup is helping e-commerce brands ‘leap’ onto Newbury Street

magazine

We often host my child’s friend at our house, but that family never reciprocates

Nine key skills all effective leaders tend to showcase

Globe Magazine.

Can they try again after her desire for a baby ended their relationship?

Malaysian-Style Noodles With Pork and Mushrooms

Recipes: Build bold flavors in 3 pork dishes

metro

“It’s incredibly disturbing,” Cody Jacobs, a Natick Town Meeting member, said of the town's handling of a sexual assault accusation against a police officer. “This is someone who is accused of a really serious crime.”

For two years, Natick has kept a secret. A police officer allegedly sexually assaulted a dispatcher.

Man arrested in connection with fatal shooting in Manchester, N.H.

Shawn loves to play all kinds of sports

sports

Devin McCourty was sky high after the first of his two second-half interceptions.

In a must-win game, the Patriots save their season with a victory over the Jets

Rhamondre Stevenson and Jakobi Meyers are the Patriots’ offense right now

Mac Jones managed, especially in the second half, in a game he got to start — and finish — for the Patriots

business

Piles of grain are seen on board the Osprey S vessel during an inspection this summer in Istanbul. The Osprey S left the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk as part of the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative, which Russia has now halted.

Concerns rise as Russia resumes grain blockade of Ukraine

Powerball grand prize climbs to $1B without a jackpot winner

Musk plans to start job cuts at Twitter within days, NYT says

politics

A police officer stands outside the home of Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in San Francisco, Friday, Oct. 28, 2022.

Pelosi attacker carried zip ties in an echo of Jan. 6 insurrection, officials says

What to know about the attack on Speaker Pelosi’s husband

Biden votes early in Delaware for November midterms

Nation

Lori Lamprich, a volunteer driver with Midwest Access Coalition, drives her car from St. Louis, Missouri, over the state border to Illinois, on June 25, 2022.

Legal abortions fell around 6 percent in two months after end of Roe

Musk tweets link to an unfounded conspiracy theory

University of Kentucky student dies in Seoul Halloween crush

World

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee pay a silent tribute to the victims of a deadly accident following Saturday night's Halloween festivities at a joint memorial altar at Seoul Square in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022.

Witnesses say ‘it was like a hell’ inside South Korean crush

Suspension bridge collapse kills at least 132 in India

Nearly 100 dead, dozens missing in storm-ravaged Philippines

opinion

Fright night

‘Originalism is intellectually indefensible,’ says noted historian about right-leaning Supreme Court

The world according to Vlad

lifestyle

A pencil at the base of the gravestone of Henry David Thoreau at the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord.

Literary greats buried throughout New England

We’ve never taken a vacation together

Drag balls, masquerades, and spooky bears: queer nightlife this Halloweekend

food & dining

Happy Halloween, and may all the candy bars in your bucket be full-size.

These are the best and worst candies of Halloween

A new bar in Providence makes you feel like you’re in downtown Nashville

Yellow Door Taqueria plans to open in Mission Hill; Dragon Pizza expands in Somerville

travel

Hertz Global Holdings Inc. office in San Francisco.

Hertz demands $658 one year after rear-end crash with rental

Fireplace suites, crafts in Vermont, and guest rooms you can swim up to

Tom Paxton on keeping your cool, the Arizona desert, and all the guilty pleasures

Arts

Yael Bartana, "Mary Koszmary," 2007. One channel video and sound installation 16mm film transferred to DVD color/sound.

At Tufts, dark visions cloud ‘The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East’

At the MFA, ‘Frank Bowling’s Americas’ is a pivotal show for an artist who’s impossible to peg

At UMass Dartmouth, the clitoris gets its close-up

Books

"....Be it people, be it nature,'' Mr. Stern said. "I always honor the unrecognized, the lost."

Gerald Stern, poet of wistfulness, anger, and humor, dies at 97

Two men locked in a long battle In ‘The Last Campaign’

Siddhartha Mukherjee on reading essays to relax, novels to escape

Movies

Wendell, left, voiced by Keegan-Michael Key, and Wild, voiced by Jordan Peele, in a scene from "Wendell & Wild."

Lovers of gross stuff, rejoice — ‘Wendell & Wild’ is plum nasty

‘Aftersun’ is a father-daughter memory play that will stay with you

‘Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues’ celebrates the Sun King of American music

Television

US rapper Jack Harlow arrives for Harper's Bazaar Global Icons Portfolio and Bloomingdale's 150th Anniversary at Bloomingdale's 59th in New York City on Sept. 9.

Tom Hanks returns to ‘Saturday Night Live’ as David S. Pumpkins, Jack Harlow hosts

Our Best TV bracket is down to eight, and older series are getting some love

Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen announce divorce after 13 years of marriage

music

Tegan and Sara at Royale Friday night.

Tegan and Sara make every minute count at Royale

Preparing for Japan, BSO unveils second tour program

Soul searching yields ‘The Skippy White Story,’ rare nuggets from Black Boston artists of the ‘60s

Theater/Dance

Set to music from Ottorino Respighi’s “Ancient Airs and Dances," Tony Williams’s “Respighi Variations” has been adapted for this production.

BoSoma and City Ballet of Boston dance ‘Side by Side’

‘Kinky Boots’ has a hitch in its stride at North Shore Music Theatre

Boston Ballet gears up for ‘As Anticipated,’ an all Forsythe program, next week

globe local

Larry and Morgan Rugg are led by Erik Rodenhiser (right) through the dark rooms of The Lost Museum in Salem.

Some Salem residents haunted by Halloween

The Argument: Should Massachusetts divest its pension fund from fossil fuel companies?

Catalytic converter theft on the rise in Newton

Obituaries

Dr. Willock chaired the anesthesiology department from 1982 to 1998 at what is now BU’s Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Photo courtesy of Cydney Scott, Boston University.

Dr. Marcelle Willock, groundbreaking role model for women and people of color in medicine, dies at 84

Gerald Stern, poet of wistfulness, anger, and humor, dies at 97

Thomas Cahill, popular history writer, dead at 82